Re: Need some ammunition (Procedures vs. Sub-routines) -- RPG400-L

Does your site use /COPY and copy books?

I ask this because I can see an argument for procedures as allowing encapsulating and securing copybook benefits and enforcing consistent code across the enterprise.

Instead of looking for subroutines that are the same in different programs, I might look for subroutines that seem the same but aren't. At various (and infrequent) times I have found subroutines that were supposed to be identical and were not. In fact the results were not the same, and when queried, the users would say something like "Yeah, its always been like that. What cha have to do is..."

On 12/27/2013 12:21 PM, RPGLIST wrote:

I truly believe its a combination of themes, I suppose it might help here
also to list out some of the objections people have had to them and then
give a response to each objection. I was originally thinking of just
giving them bullet points and why they are better, etc. However, in
hindsight I'm thinking I need to add a list of objections and then
overcome each one.

Sounds like "sub-procedure" has been interpreted as
"I plan to inject our system with this virus I found"
so try switching the focus to "re-usable code" that
once thoroughly tested returns your investment because
it is a "known and understood function".

Yea, I bet you've already beat that drum . . .

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Subject: Need some ammunition (Procedures vs. Sub-routines)

I won't go into the entire lengthy and boring conversation I just had with
upper management, but I was basically told that under no circumstances am
I to add procedures to certain applications. The justification is that
by doing so, we will be required to re-test the entire system, payroll,
dispatch, load balancing, AP, AR, etc.

I however was provided an opportunity to make my case, and I have a list
of reasons, but I need every bit of ammunition I can come up, so any help
from ya'll would be cool.

Dutch

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